Inherit the Wind



I mentioned the late, great, American actor - Spencer Tracy - in a recent post, but here he is in one of my favourite films of all time, 'Inherit the Wind'.

 Now the movie tells the tale of the 'Scopes Monkey Trial' as it become known back in 1925 in which the 'redneck' State of Tennessee prosecuted a local school teacher (John Scopes) for teaching his students about human evolution and Charles Darwin.

 Spencer Tracy plas a famous defence attorney, Clarence Darrow, and wipes the floor a courtroom confrontation with his rival William Jennings Bryan, a well-known political figure and religious bully.    

 William Jennings Bryan was a fundamentalist Christian and argued that the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all man made laws and human knowledge - which is of course what the Catholic Church used to say in medieval times and no different to what some Islamic fundamentalists say now. 

But how encouraging it is that science and logic finally prevailed over fear, prejudice  and religious bigotry.  

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